Those Yamaha THR Thingies.......

TimmyO

You have an iTrack dock and presumably then an iPad - get Jamup and BIAS. Awesomes.

(although I still love my THR10C) 

Chuffola

I like my THR 10 and I don't seem to struggle to get a decent sound out of it. But it is what it is - a desktop amp. I've no doubt a Tone King would be better...

By contrast, I thought the ID Core was an absolute pile of rubbish - hissy, sounded very digital - awful in every way. 

Haven't tried the Roland thing.

I'm surprised that people are surprised that everyone has a different view of them. It's pretty much the same with any gear. 

dindude

TimmyO said:

You have an iTrack dock and presumably then an iPad - get Jamup and BIAS. Awesomes.

(although I still love my THR10C) 

Can't get on with Jamp Up at all, sounds very toy town to me.

dindude

John_P said:

^  +1    I had a microcube and hardly used it - looking back I mostly used an acoustic or electric unplugged when practising on the sofa.  In comparison, the thr gets daily use and sounds great.  The mc was a good little amp but there is something about the thr that makes it more useable.

I've also had the regular microcube, the difference with the Cube Lite is that, like the THR, it has stereo full range speakers, so not trying to mimick a regular guitar speaker, but it also has a subwoofer, and I think this is what makes the difference - just tried the aux in for backing tracks and the Roland is way fuller sounding than the Yamaha.

TimmyO

dindude said:

TimmyO said:

You have an iTrack dock and presumably then an iPad - get Jamup and BIAS. Awesomes.

(although I still love my THR10C) 

Can't get on with Jamp Up at all, sounds very toy town to me.

Presume using decent headphones? I use my recording ones or Bose noise cancelling ones - I found starting from some of the better-rated ones on ToneCloud gave me better results than what I'd make from scratch. I think it's brilliant - better than Ampkit and Amplitube 

sunshinewelly

The blackstar id range are much better than the yahama models.

Chuffola

Not the ID Core, surely?

The full ID amps, totally agree, but then they are a totally different thing.

ThePrettyDamned

Chuffola;585017" said:

Not the ID Core, surely?

The full ID amps, totally agree, but then they are a totally different thing.

I compared an id core 20 and 10 to the thr, preferred the blackstars.

Chuffola

Weirdo.

:P

sunshinewelly

I mean the id series not the core models

sunshinewelly

Still have not bothered with my axe fx2 for all of 2 weeks since getting the 15tvp

menamestom

I'm selling my THR5A which is the acoustic model with Mic modelling, but since I sold my Yamaha silent guitar I don't really need it for acoustic.  It has one electric setting, but I need more versatility.

I wasn't blown away by the THR to be honest so I'm reluctant to go for the THR10, even though it ticks most of the boxes.  The problem is the Yamaha's seem to be the only amps that do 2 way audio with a PC.  So you have a record output but it acts as your soundcard so you can use the THR as a monitor speaker as well.  I don't have a separate soundcard for my laptop so this function is very handy.  Do any other amps operate in this way, or are they all USB record out only?

Looking at the Mustangs and Blackstars etc.